Motörhead

Vinyl Records and Rare LPs:

	Ace Of Spades Used Import - BMGCAT432TLP 2020 3LP 180gm 40th anniversary edition with 20 page booklet in heavy hardbound cover. Brand new half speed master created from the original tapes for optimal speaker smashing dynamic range. Double live album of a newly unearthed, previously unreleased concert, recorded at Whitla Hall, Belfast on 23rd December 1981. - The story of Ace Of Spades told through previously unpublished interviews with the people that were there. - Never before seen photos and rare memorabilia. - Original song lyrics. more
	Iron Horse / Born To Lose New - 7 - CLO2018 New 45rpm 7" In Textured Sleeve & Heavy Plastic Sleeve With Hype Sticker. Only 500 Copies Of This Silver Vinyl. more
	Motörhead New - LP - DPRLP53 Sealed 2015 Limited, Numbered, 200gm Reissue. Mastered For Vinyl By Masterdisk And Pressed At QRP. "Before Forming Motörhead, Ian Kilmister (Aka Lemmy) Could Boast Of Having Been A Member Of Space Rock Cowboys Hawkwind And A Career In Horsebreaking (That's Horsebreaking, Not Housebreaking). He Was Also, To Top It All, The Son Of A Vicar. Having Been Expelled From His Former Employers After A Disagreement With Border Guards Over The Contents Of His Luggage, He Took The Name For His New Band From The Final Song He'd Written For Hawkwind. Together With Larry Wallis Of The Pink Fairies And Drummer Philthy Animal Taylor, Motörhead Recorded A Debut Album That Was Rejected By United Artists (You Can Just Imagine The Face Of The Poor Guy Who Got The Short Straw And Had To Tell Lemmy), Though It Was Eventually Released As On Parole In 1979. As A Result, The Group Expanded With The Addition Of "Fast" Eddie Clarke On Guitar. Wallis Then Left After Just One Rehearsal, Leaving The Classic Motörhead Lineup In Shape For Their Debut Proper. Rock & Roll Had Never Heard The Like. Though Only A Minor Chart Success, Motörhead Patented The Group's Style: Lemmy's Rasping Vocal Over A Speeding Juggernaut Of Guitar, Bass, And Drums. The Lyrical Theme Was "Don't Mess With Us" Instead Of "Don't Mess With Our Hair." Before This, Hard Rock Was About Musicianship And Exhibitionism. Motörhead, Conversely, Returned Mainstream Rock To Its Most Brutal Base Elements -- No Wonder The Punks Liked Them." AMG Review By Alex Ogg. more
	On Parole New - LP - LN10340 Sealed 1982 US reissue, on grey EMI America label. Saw cut. "Recorded by the original Motörhead lineup of Lemmy, Lucas Fox, and Larry Wallis, On Parole is famous as the debut album that the band recorded in 1975 -- only to be shelved by a U.K. label that simply couldn't understand what all the noise was about. Produced by Fritz Fryer, a man whose past with Merseybeat-era heroes the Four Pennies should have guaranteed at least a little pop sensibility, On Parole contrarily turned in a bludgeoning blur of riffs and roaring, a bare-fanged threat to the order of things, a slobbering, slavering, three-headed monster that should have been strangled at birth. UA did the next best thing. They decapitated it. On Parole was buried, Motörhead were dropped, and, by year's end, the band had shattered. And there the story should have ended. But Lemmy was made of sterner stuff -- Motörhead not only had the temerity to return, they compounded their audacity by scoring hit singles. By 1978, Motörhead were arguably the biggest heavy metal band in the world. And On Parole didn't sound so distasteful any more. Countless reissues followed, and here is another one, released in 1997 as part of EMI's centenary celebrations. And that in itself is a bit of a joke -- the last time the label celebrated Motörhead, it was the day their contract went into the bin. This time, though, there's something to cheer about. Before the Fryer sessions, Motörhead tried out some demos with producer Dave Edmunds, a quartet of long-lost songs whose legend has so increased in dimension that, umpteen reissues of On Parole later, one would still trade one's first born for the chance to buy it one more time, with the Edmunds sessions appended as a bonus. Well, here's your chance -- and don't forget to pack up the diapers. The added songs themselves are familiarity itself -- "On Parole," "City Kids," "Leaving Here," and "Motörhead" reappear not only on the main album, but in various forms across so many other Motörhead and Larry Wallis/Pink Fairies recordings. But the arrangements are devastating, steeped in blues, drenched in booze, the highest octane pub rock of all. No matter how well you think you know Motörhead, still it's nothing like you're expecting. A true sonic symphony, this is Wagner with whiplash. Imagine Edmunds' own Subtle as a Flying Mallet if the mallet flew straight through your head; think of "Girls Talk" if Courtney Love started the conversation. Even more alarmingly, however, it makes promises that Motörhead themselves could never keep and posits a future so far from all that eventually transpired that the On Parole material itself sounds like abject surrender, or at least foul betrayal, by comparison. The Motörhead that people know and love threatened to take on the world. The Motörhead here would simply have taken it over. No wonder they got canned." AMG - Dave Thompson. more